Thursday, December 04, 2008

10 (+ Plenty More) In 2010 (- 1)

I'm psyched for '09. And today, I got the envelope. The one that allows me to renew my 10-game plan, and, more importantly, tells me which games I'll be seeing as part of that plan. Every year it's two Yankee games, an interleague game, and the chance to buy a playoff game. The rest of it's always pretty predictable, heavy on April and September, with one game in each month from May to August. The big question is always which interleague team we'll get. This year, it'll be the Marlins.

I started thinking, Have I ever seen the Marlins in person? I didn't think so, but I still searched for the post I did about which Major League teams I've yet to see in person. Found it. I wrote it before last season, and mentioned I'd be seeing the D-backs, one of the three I hadn't yet seen. I did do that in '08, and the Marlins were another on that list, along with the Nationals. So after this season I'll just need the Nats. Unless I go down to DC to see the Sox play, which I might.

Looking back at that post, I seemed pretty sure about the Brewers thing, but now I don't know--I need to look at my ticket stubs. If I have seen them, then after this season, I can say I've seen every franchise, since I saw the Expos.

Now I gotta work on getting to every stadium. I think I'm at 14 or something.

"The Gray Race" is definitely an unappreciated record; "Come Join Us" may be in my all-time BR top ten, and "10 in 2010," and "Cease" are classics as well. Greg Graffin included a slow, piano only version of "Cease" on his first solo record which is interesting because apparently he writes tons of their music on piano, so it was like hearing the song as it must have originally sounded to him. Either way, on the heals of "Recipe for Hate," which I thought was mediocre, "TGR" was a pleasant surprise...

Twas "American Lesion"...and yes, no album between RFH and TGR...RFH kinda lost me, aside from the title track...too slow, too much Eddie Vedder...weird to think that BR opened for Pearl Jam on one tour...